TAM Docents: Specialized Tours

Hello Docents-

I would like to feature some of your specialized tours to the public. We want to focus on the weekdays as weekends will already pull people in (though we might add the public tours then later). What I need from you is: 1) a brief description of your tour content (I have waited to ask so that you would have some time to come up with some basic ideas). This does not need to be overly detailed and it would be great if you worked with the other docents in your topic to come up with something that works for all of you. 2) weekday days and times for your specialized tour between March 16 – the close of the exhibition May 31. I will then take a look at what works with the Event Calendar and let you know the final choices. You may tour solo or as topic groups. You may offer a topic each month. Just determine what you would like to do and I will see what I can make happen.

I know this is an unusual approach and I appreciate you working with me on making this possible. Once we get specialized tour times and descriptions up, we might also get group tours asking for them so it will market the options as well.

Below is what I have in terms of docents and topics. If you do not see your name, pick a topic and let me know (your topic can even be different than any of those below). If I have you down for the incorrect topic, that is also worth emailing me about.

 

Docent 1	Docent 2	Docent 3	Special Rockwell Topic
Randi Kander			Rockwell and Children
Gaard Logan	Linda Flatley	Sue Stibbe	Saturday Evening Post
Errol Alexander	Barbara Abegg		An American Agent of Change: Norman Rockwell & The Man within the Painter: Rockwell Speaks Back
Karin Morris	Judi Keyser		Social Change
Sharon Berens	Sanjeev Narang	Elizabeth Walsh	4 Freedoms
Margaret Upshaw	Rose Oliveira	Sue Stibbe	Small Town America
Liliana Franz			American Social Change
Cathy Wiggins			Changing image of women in Norman Rockwell’s America
Barbara Beaver			Norman Rockwell: The Early Years

 

Thanks for all that you do for Tacoma Art Museum! I think we need to all get together for a social occasion / celebration once Rockwell is through. You really deserve it. I am so proud that you are all so generously jumping in for the tours! I think that is a little bit of moisture in the corner of my eye.

Best regards,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Manager of Public and Volunteer Programs

& Interim Director of Education

 

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

American Chronicles: The Art of

NORMAN ROCKWELL

February 26 – May 30, 2011

 

courage – family – innocence – freedom – history